Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Great men should not have great faults.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.